Recent content by marcusmj

Hi, Unfortunately that is not an option for me. The data that underlies the report changes frequently. The objective of saving the report is to capture a point-in-time "snapshot" of the data, based on the user's criteria at the time they chose to run the report. Thanks again, mike

I am building a reporting application. The reports are dynamically created using PHP. I want to allow a user to view a report, and optionally save it on the web server. I would then store the name and location of the report file in a relational database, tied to the user's ID. I'm not sure how...

I guess I was trying to put a screw into the wall with a hammer... ie. it sorta worked, but ultimately I was using the wrong tool for the job. I switched to DIVs as you suggested and they are proving much easier to work with. The float properties are the key. Thanks for the tip.

In the following example, I would expect the outermost span to have a width of 100 -- it contains an inner blue span of 100, which is overlapped by a inner green span of 50. Instead, the outermost span retains a width of 150 -- as though the green span had not been shifted. <span...